Friday, March 08, 2013

RPSTMOTD #11/12

When you train in Cuba, you take BP in your underwear. When you train in Jersey, you warm up with a scarf and a fire.

Left: Ducky Medwick of the Brooklyn Dodgers in Havana, February 28, 1942, about a week before my dad was born--he turns 71 today. Happy birthday, dad! (We all know he shares this birthday with my cousin Newi and Jim Rice, and it's my half-birthday too, as I turn 37.5 today.) Photo by William Vandivert/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images.

Right: Cliff Melton, Van Mungo, and Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants in Lakewood, NJ, March 1943. Photo by NY Daily News via Getty Images.